In a randomized research involved with women and men in their mid-60s, walking as much as three times per week for a year resulted in raises in the level of the hippocampus, which is responsible for a significant role in memory. The discovery would suggest that it’s possible for you to get over the age-related decrease in hippocampal volume having only reasonable exercise.

Their health and fitness and memory were analyzed before the interference, once again after six months, and for a final time after 12 months. Magnetic resonance pictures of their brains were captured at the very same occasions to be able to calculate the impact on the hippocampal volume.

However improvement in aerobic fitness was not connected with developments in memory for either the whole sample or either group individually, they discovered. However, bigger hippocampi at baseline and after the involvement were related to much better memory overall performance.